Think of our neighbor, Goodwife Hoar; because she would not say She was in league with evil powers, she pines in jail to-day.
A sounding blow upon the Prince's shoulder from Canty's broad palm sent him staggering into goodwife Canty's arms, who clasped him to her breast, and sheltered him from a pelting rain of cuffs and slaps by interposing her own person.
And when, just after the noonday dinner, the goodwife gave him a basket of kittens to drown, he did resign.
Then he broadened his bill of fare, and discussed it with such appreciation and animation, that the goodwife said to herself, "Good lack!
The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.
So he had them into his parlour and gave them seats, and then there was a silence, while the two men continued to look furtively about them, and the goodwife sate with her eyes upon the priest's face.
And the goodwife would shake her head and wonder; for it was not easy to answer Mistress Alison, who indeed was often right in the end.
Well thought on, John," replied Carver smiling, for goodwife Billington's untidiness was but too notorious among her associates.
Sit you down, and goodwife Billington set on some beer for our guest.
Tituba had told the poor deluded child that if Goodwife Nurse were a witch, she would be accompanied by a yellow bird.
There was also present Goodwife Corey, who was subsequently arrested for a witch.
Shortly after the arrest and incarceration of Goodwife Nurse, Reverend Deodat Lawson, an eminent Boston divine, came to Salem village.
Goodwife Corey sits on the beam, suckling her yellow bird betwixt her fingers!
Goodwife Corey was present at the time, and Abigail Williams, in the midst of the sermon, cried out: "Look!
They pointed along the floor, then up the wall to the ceiling, where they both avowed that they saw Goodwife Nurse and the black man, or demon, dancing with their heels up and heads down.
The good Beaudry, with his good boat, was sent home not empty-handed to his goodwife near Shulie, with instructions to come again for us in five days.
But before he could reply hisgoodwife answered for him, with the freedom of a clear conscience.
The man of the house, one Beaudry, was in the woods looking for his cow, but the goodwife made us welcome.
I spoke casually of the weather, and inquired how his apples and his flax were faring, and so filled the minutes safely until the goodwife came with the butter-milk.
Before it was yet full day, I was again astir, and goodwife Giraud was getting ready, in bags, our provision of bacon and black bread.
Ebenezer Devotion drew from his wallet a slip of paper and headed his list of names with "Six sheep, from Goodwife Elderkin.
When every neighbor feels it a duty to carry intelligence from the last speaker he has met to the next hearer he may meet, news flies fast, so Goodwife Elderkin was prepared for the accost of Mr. Devotion.
Goodwife Elderkin came out from the thicket to the road-side, eager for gain.
And then at last another said, that he would have 'eyren'; then the goodwife said that she understood him well.
And the goodwife drew the settle, and stirred the fire amain.
The goodwife dropped her needles: "It is twenty years to-day, Since the Indians fell on Saco, and stole our child away.
Then the goodwifecame out, and received the jar with every mark of politeness.
As luck would have it, three days after this the man whom they had commissioned to buy the fox's liver came to the house; so the goodwife hurried out to meet him and welcome him.
And such is the life of the strolling friar, With aplenty to eat and to drink; For the goodwife will keep him a seat by the fire, And the pretty girls smile at his wink.
The goodwife asked his leave to go down, and he said she was mistress of her own ways, but that he was not going.
The goodwife is at home with her daughter, and if I had any grudge to repay, I would come just as you do, for there is everything here which you want, ale to drink and other delights.
The goodwife kindled a light and put it in a window in the loft at the top of the house, where it served him as a guide, and he was able to find his way home by the light.
Even when the blue-hooded cart was far down the loaning, a belated and forgetful goodwife would come running to some knowe-top, and from that eminence she would proceed to give further directions for commissions from the town.
Yet, in spite of this gallant defiance, Vara turned round to make sure that the goodwife of Loch Spellanderie was not in the place designated.
Now and then the carrier stopped at snug farm-houses, and went in to chaffer with the goodwifefor her eggs.
But probably the New England goodwife had on hand one of the dozen astounding salves described in the book, that the doctor had ere this instructed her to make, and in which I trust he found due relief.
Physician and nurse and goodwife talked and droned on; the sick man moaned and tossed in his bed, and begged fruitlessly for water.
Going to the table, and catching up a glass vessel on which the goodwife set great store, he threw it against the wall, and we all plainly heard it shiver into tinkling pieces.
The goodwife gave him a clean white napkin from her aumbry, and he tore it up before their eyes, she not daring to stay his hand.
Goodwife Bradley, supposing the Indians had come with the intention of again capturing her, encouraged her husband to fight to the last, declaring that she had rather die on her own hearth than fall into their hands.
The Indians rushed upon the garrison, and assailed the thick oaken door, which they forced partly open, when a well-aimed shot from Goodwife Bradley laid the foremost dead on the threshold.
Goodwife Swan, armed with a long spit, successfully defended her door against two Indians.
Goodwife Bradley and four others were spared as prisoners.
Is she to be a Russian Princess, a Duchessa of Italy, or the goodwife of an untitled Englishman?
And there is something so touching so exquisitely touching in those Flemish interiors, where the goodwife is seated reading, and a straggling sunbeam comes slanting in upon the tiled floor.
After sunset Goodwife Evans, frightened by the reports, came to the Puddington house and begged that she might stay for the night.
If you do talk of witches we shall lose half the berries we have gathered, and Goodwife Hubbard will scold us roundly.
Goodwife Williams, for children that rouse a village there is but one remedy.
Goodwife Anne Brown, who helped thee keep watch the night thy father's ship was lost at sea?
My mother and Goodwife Prudence Hubbard were deep in talk together; but when I passed they put their fingers on their lips.
Yet not so many as Goodwife Prudence Hubbard bade us bring.
Even the aged and charitable Francis Dane said, "That there was a suspicion of goodwife Carrier among some of us before she was apprehended, I know; as for any other persons, I had no suspicion of them.
The week following, after my coming in, the governor and council sent forth to the Indians again; and that not without success; for they brought in my sister, and goodwife Kettle.
